Hosiery-holder for embroidering-machines.



l. RADER.

HOSIERY HOLDER FOR EMBROIDERING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-211M915.

Lwmzm Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

[TI/1k? afar; awoe/wtoz IRWIN RADER, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR 'lO NGLIDE & HORST COIVIPANY, 0F READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNlSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fi1ed September 28, 1915. Serial No. 52,977.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, lnvIN RADER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hosiery-Hold ers for Enibroidering-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fabric-holding devices employed in connection with embroidering machines; and it consists in an improved construction adapted more particularly for hosiery and having as its essential feature a rigid one-piece frame formed of a bent bar and carrying independently locked clamping bars arranged wholly within the plane of the frame, as fully described in connection with the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the claim.

The drawing illustrates a hosiery holder embodying the invention and showing different positions of the clamping bars with their pivoting and locking connections.

fhe main object of the invention is to provide a holder device of simple and satisfactory construction and operation, having all its portions arranged in the same plane so as to permit of easily introducing and controlling the previously clamped fabric for the embroidering operation.

The horizontal frame a is formed in a single piece, from a rod or bar of metal of uniform cross-section having its ends rigidly united; this endless bar being bent to ring-like form but having parallel top and bottom portions 2, 3, connected as shown by side por ions 4, 4, which are generally curved as indicated so as to form corner portions 5, 5, 6, 6. Adjacent each of these corners, the frame is provided respectively with a fixed outwardly extending pivot ear 7 and with a laterally extending pivot aperture 8; the latter extending through a portion of the frame bar which is provided with a link-engaging slot 9.

Similar clamping bars, 10, 11, 12, 12 are provided for the top and bottom portions 2, 3, and side portions 4:, 4 of the frame; one end of each of said clamping bars, as shown, being slotted and apertured to pivotally engage a fixed pivot ear 7 of the frame, and

the other end being slotted to engage a link 15 which is pivoted in a link-engaging slot 9 of the same portion of the frame.

Each of these bars 10, 11, 12, 12 conforms with the end or side portion of the frame to which it is connected and with which it cooperates in clamping the interposed fabric; and each is adapted to be independently pressed into clamping contact by a locking cam lever 16 which is pivotally carried by the free end of a link 15, as shown. The contacting faces of the frame and clamping bars provide a recessed engagement adapted to securely grip the fabric; and all of the clamping bars, together with their pivoting and locking connections, lie wholly within the plane of the frame, so as to provide a rigid device of minimum and uniform thickness throughout, which permits of easily placing and manipulating the previously clamped fabric with relation to the embroidering mechanism in connection with which it is to be used. The straight top portion 2 of the frame as shown, is of proper length to receive and clamp the wider portion of a full-fashioned hosiery fabric, the narrower portion of which is then clamped to the shorter bottom portion 3 and the edges to the side portions a, 4L, of the holder; and the properly stretched fabric after being thus secured, is readily placed beneath or withdrawn from the embroidering needles, and freelv controlled during the embroidering operation so as to accurately produce desired effects.

What I claim is:

A hosiery-holder for embroidering machines consisting of a rigid open frame formed of an endless bar of uniform crosssection bent to form parallel end portions and integral corner portions, outwardly extending pivot ears rigidly fixed to said bar adjacent the respective corner portions, separate clamping bars for each end and side portion of said frame connected to the respective pivot-ears, and separate locking means for the free ends of said bars each comprising a swinging-link connection to the frame and a cam lever.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature.

IRVI N RADER.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

Patented Apr, it, 191*? 

